Immigration Vocabulary

the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group

• Culture

• Assimilation

• Multiculturalism

• Quota

a legal member of a country

• Citizen

• Nativist

• Naturalization

• Immigrant

having a variety of cultures in the same area.

• Salad Bowl Theory

• Cultural Pluralism

• Multicultural

• Culture diversity

American culture is a blend of many different cultures

• Melting Pot Theory

• Salad Bowl Theory

• Culture Pluralism

• Assimilation

A legal process to obtain citizenship

• Citizenship

• Immigration Act 1921

• Nativism

• Naturalization

Immigrants from Northwest Europe arriving in the EARLY 1800s

• New Immigration

• Old Immigration

• Salad Bowl Theory

• Melting Pot Theory

the theory that cultures mix but retain unique features of their original cultures

• Assimilation

• Naturalization

• Melting Pot Theory

• Salad Bowl Theory

Factors that induce people to move to a new location.

• Pull Factors

• Push Factors

• Gentleman's Agreement

• Chinese Exclusion Act

A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones

• Immigration Act of 1924

• Naturalization

• Nativism

• Assimilation

Act that restricted new arrivals each year to 3 percent of the foreign-born of any nationality as shown in the 1910 census. Also known as the Emergency Quota Act.

• Immigration Act of 1924

• Immigration Act of 1921

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Quota